Feeding and cutting device.



J. J. FARRELL.

FEEDING AND CUTTING DEVICE.

APPLIOATION FILED JAN. 9, 191;. RENEWED MAR. 24, 1914.

1,095,961. Patented May 5, 1914,

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J. J. FARRELL.

FEEDING AND CUTTING DEVICE.

APPLICATION FILED 1,111.9, 1911. RENEWED MAR. 24, 1914.

1,095,961 Patented May 5, 1914.

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J. J. FARRELL.

FEEDING AND CUTTING DEVICE.

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Patented May 5-, 1914.

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JOHN J. FARRELL, OF ABDMORE, PENNSYLVANIA, ASSIGNOR TO THE FARRELL COMPANY, OF WILMINGTON, DELAWARE, A CORPORATION OF DELAWARE.

FEEDING AND CUTTING DEVICE.

Patented May 5, 1914.

Original application filed October 26, 1908, Serial No. 459,656. Divided and this application filed January 9, 1911, Serial No. 601,696. Renewed March 24, 1914. Serial No. 827,002.

and useful Improvements in Feeding and Cutting Devices, of which the following is .a description, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, forming a part hereof.

My invention relates to devices for feeding a strip of paper or other material and cutting off portions thereof and impressing or punching a character or design on the severed portion and has for its object to provide a mechanism which will operate to simultaneously sever the strip of paper and impress or punch the desired character or design on the severed portion.

With this object in view my invention consist-s in the construction and combination of elements hereinafter described.

In the drawings: Figure 1 is a side elevation of a coin wrapping machine in which my invention is embodied; Fig. 2 is a crosssectional view on line a a of Fig. 1; Fig. 3 is a horizontal sectional view on line Z)b of Fig. 1; Fig. 4 is a fragmentary sectional view on line cc of Fig. 3; and Fig. 5 is a cross-sectional view on line dcZ of Fig. 3.

In the drawings 1 is the table of a coin wrapping machine supported by suitable legs 2 and carrying standards 3 to which is secured a plate 4. Between the table 1 and the plate 4 is carried a rotatable coin collecting device comprising upper and lower plates 5 and 6 having openings therein in which are secured the ends of wrapping tubes 7 each having a vertically extending opening or slit 8 from top to bottom having one edge flared outwardly to permit a strip of paper to readily enter the slit.

In the operation of the machine which is fully described in the patent granted to me January 10, 1911, No. 981,403 of which this application is a division a suitable number of coins is placed in a wrapping tube 7 and the end of a strip of paper is inserted into the slit 8 and as the paper is fed forward the pile of coins within the tube is rotated causing the paper to be wrapped about it. The rotation of the pile of coins is effected by a roller 9 carried by a vertically movable shaft 10 arranged to be moved upward at theproper time by a cam 11 on a horizontal shaft 12 operated by a crank 13. The vertically movable shaft slides through a beveled pinion 15 to which it is splined and this pinion 15 is in mesh with a mutilated bevel gear 16 on the horizontal shaft 12 the arrangement being such that the roll 9 will be lifted by the cam 11 and rotated by the gear 16 and pinion 15. Parallel with and adjacent to the roller. 9 is an idle roll 17 carried by a vertical shaft 18, the roll 17 serving to hold the paper against the roll 9 as it is rotated.

The paper from which the wrapping strip is cut is supplied from a roll 19 carried by a post 20. From the roll 19 the paper passes about suitable guide rolls to a pair of feed rolls 21, 22 the shaft of one of which extends through the table 1, and carries a gear 23 which is driven by a gear on the horizontal shaft 24 which is driven by the vertically movable shaft 10. From the feed rolls 21, 22 the paper passes between a fixed knife 25 and a movable knife 26 from which it passes to a pair of feed rolls 27, 28, the shaft of one of which extends through the table 1 and carries gear 29 which is driven by a gear on the horizontal shaft 24.

To prevent the paper roll from unwinding too rapidly and to put the paper strip under slight tension an idle roll 30 is caused to bear against theperiphery of the roll. This idle roll is carried in the end of an arm 31 the other end of which is secured to the upper end of a vertical shaft 32 having a bearing in a vertical hollow post 33. The shaft 32 extends through the table and to its lower end is secured an arm 34 to the free end of which a spring 35 is connected the other end of the opening being secured to a pin 36 on the under side of the table, the spring operating to keep the idle roll 30 pressed against the roll of paper as the strip of paper is drawn off by the feed rolls.

The fixed knife 25 is secured to an upright 37 carried by the table 1 and has its edge preferably vertical. The movableknife 26 is slotted at 38, 38 and is secured to but free to slide on an upright 39 by screws 40 which extend through the slots 38. The cutting edge of the movable knife 26 is preferably inclined as shown so as to effect a shearing cut and bothknives are preferably arranged at an inclination so as to sever the paper strip at an angle to its upper and lower edges.

The movable knife 26 has a rearward eX- tension 41 to which is pivotally connected an arm carried by a vertical shaft l3 ourlnalcd in a hollow post 14. The shaft 13 extends below the table 1 and has secured to its lower end an arm 45. To the end of arm 45 is connected one end of a rod 4:6 the other end of which is pivotally connected to the upper arm of an oscillating lever 17 pivoted at 41-8 to a hanger l9 depending from the table 1. The lower end of the lever 17 is in position to be struck by a cam 50 on horizontal shaft 12. This cam striking the lower end of the lever -17 causes the upper end of the lever to push the rod 16 and through the arms 15 and 12 causes the movable knife 26 to move forward acting with the fixed knife 25 to sever the paper strip.

The movable knife 26 carries on its rear face, that is on the side toward the wrap ping tube 7, a die 51 having a series of projecting pins 52 which enter a correspondingly arranged series of openings formed in a die carried by the fixed knife 25. lVhen the knives are brought together the pins 52 pass through the paper strip into the openings in the die 53 thus pricking or punching in the end of the strip cut off by the knives the letter or other designating mark which the pins 52 are arranged to form. In Fig. 1 the pins are arranged to form the letter F but they may obviously be arranged to form any other letter or character. From the knives and dies the paper is guided by stationary guides 54 to the rolls 27, 28 and from them to the slit or opening 8 in the wrapping tube 7 and to the rolls 9 and 17.

In the operation of the complete machine as described in my application before referred to the paper strip which is wrapped about the pile of coins in the wrapping tul e is crimped in above and below the pile of coins this being effected by mechanism arranged to swing on vertical shaft 56 as a center, vertical shaft 56 forming the center on which the plate carrying the wrapping tubes 7 and being arranged to be rotated to rotate the plates by a bevel pinion 57 on its lower end arranged to be driven by a mutilated bevel pinion 58 on the inner end of horizontal shaft 12. The crimping mechanism comprises an upper arm 59 and a lower arm 60 the lower arm being bent upward at its outer end to form a vertical extension 61 the upper end of this vertical extension being secured to the upper arm 59 by means of a screw threaded pin 62 on the upper arm extending through a suitable opening in the vertical extension. and a nut 63. The upper and lower arms 59 and 60 are each pro vided with a projection 64: which as the arms are swung in a direction toward the knives 25 and 26 will bend or crimp the ends of the tube formed by wrapping the paper strip about the pile of coins. This movement of the arms 59 and 60 is effected by the movement of the lever 47 to the upper end of which the lower arm (30 is connected by a link the crimping operation taking place at the same instant that the movable knife is operated to cut off a strip of paper.

In the operation of the mechanism above described as the horizontal shaft 12 is rotated the toothed portion of the bevel gear 16 will rotate the bevel pinion 15 and through it the vertically movable shaft 10, the shaft being held in elevated position by the cam 11. At the same time the vertically movable shaft through suitable gearing causes the horizontal shaft 2st to rotate rotating the feed rollers 21 and 27. The end of the paper roll is at first fed forward by the feed rollers 21 22, until its end reaches the feed rollers 27, 28, when it will continue to be fed forward by all four of the rollers until its end is close to the slit or opening 8 in a wrapping tube 7 but not close enough to be caught. The toothless portion of the bevel gear 16 then comes opposite the bevel pinion 15 and the pinion and the vertically movable shaft 10 stops, as this takes place the vertically movable shaft is permitted to drop by the cam 11 and. the teeth of the mutilated bevel pinion 58 on shaft 12 come into gear with the teeth of bevel pinion 57 rotating vertical shaft 56 and with it the coin col lecting device thus bringing the next wrapping tube 7 into position with its slit 8 ready to receive the end of the strip previously fed forward. Before the teeth of the mutilated bevel pinion 58 leave the bevel pinion 57 the cam 50 operates the lever 47 to cause the movable knife to cut the paper strip and also to cause the crimping mechanism to operate. The lever 17 is restored to normal position by a spring 66. As soon as the teeth of the mutilated bevel pinion 58 are out of engagement with the teeth of bevel pinion 57 the cam 11 raises the vertically movable shaft 10 and at the same time the bevel pinion 15 is rotated by the bevel gear 16 and the feed rollers 27, 28 feed the severed strip forward into the slit or opening 8 of the wrapping tube 7 where it is gripped by the rollers 9 and 17 and caused to be wrapped about the pile of coins. The feed roller 9 is somewhat larger in diameter than the feed rollers 21, 22 and 27, 28, so as to draw the severed strip into the wrapping tube more rapidly than the unsevered strip is fed forward. The idle rollers 17, 22 and 28 are pressed toward the driven rollers 9, 21 and 27 by springs 67 hearing against blocks 68 in which the shafts which carry the idle rollers have their bearings. The tension of each spring 67 is regulated by a screw 69.

It will of course be understood that while the cutting and marking mechanism has been described in connection with a coin wrapping device it is not limited to such use as it may be used in connection with any paper strip feeding mechanism.

Having thus described my invention, What I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent is 1. The combination with means for feeding a strip of paper, of a reciprocating knife for severing said strip, a cam and bell crank lever intermittently operating said knife; said knife provided with axial slots, lugs engaging said slots to thereby guide the movement of said knife, a die, carried by said knife adapted to impress a character on the portion of the strip severed.

2. The combination with means for feeding a strip of paper, of a reciprocating knife die being so arranged that the movement of the reciprocating knife to sever the strips of paper will cause the dies to impress a character on the portion of strip severed.

This specification signed and witnessed this seventh day of January A. D. 1911.

JOHN J. FARRELL.

In the presence oflVALTER J. CLARK, JAMES F TUOHEY.

Copies of this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of Patents,

Washington, D. G. 

